Physophical Question of the Day:
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Physophical question of theweek day:
A while back, one the kids I watch was doing their spelling homework, making sentances with their spelling words. The sentance the kid came up with (and he was rather proud of this) was:
"We burned the church down to the ground."
I was kind of horrified by this, and steered the sentance to something else, also using the spelling words. But he couldn't understand why I was disturbed by this sentance and I couldn't figure why he wasn't. Until he said that he'd never been to one. To him, a church was just a building. ~_~
-Since his father is supposedly bringing them up Christian, that's for him to teach them about and one discussion I'm not getting into. I'm there to make sure homework gets done.
But I was talking to my Dad about this and he made a comment that has had me thinking. He thought that it was a pity that the kids weren't going to some sort of church, because religion tended to be one of the major things that shaped one's morals and sense of right and wrong.
I've been kind of pondering that ever since... Just how much does religion reflect on a person's sense of morals or is something that is more dependant on the person?
er, does that make sense? ._.
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'Human Intelligence Instructor **Secret Clearance Required**'
Y'know, I can't make these sort of titles up. ^^;;
Physophical question of the
A while back, one the kids I watch was doing their spelling homework, making sentances with their spelling words. The sentance the kid came up with (and he was rather proud of this) was:
"We burned the church down to the ground."
I was kind of horrified by this, and steered the sentance to something else, also using the spelling words. But he couldn't understand why I was disturbed by this sentance and I couldn't figure why he wasn't. Until he said that he'd never been to one. To him, a church was just a building. ~_~
-Since his father is supposedly bringing them up Christian, that's for him to teach them about and one discussion I'm not getting into. I'm there to make sure homework gets done.
But I was talking to my Dad about this and he made a comment that has had me thinking. He thought that it was a pity that the kids weren't going to some sort of church, because religion tended to be one of the major things that shaped one's morals and sense of right and wrong.
I've been kind of pondering that ever since... Just how much does religion reflect on a person's sense of morals or is something that is more dependant on the person?
er, does that make sense? ._.
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Date: 2007-02-25 02:09 am (UTC)When I went to church, taught Sunday School and basically 'toed the line' my morals and values were far different then they are today, at a time in my life when my religion is outside most main stream religions (or any in fact, as my belief's are a bit of a pot luck of many different ones).
Then again, I'm also older then I was when I left formal religion (by ten years), so perhaps morals and values are something that change over time as you age and perceive the world.
So long as they hold true for you...does it matter what shapes them, so long as they're there? S'my thought, same with religion. So long as you have it, it really shouldn't matter where it's from or why you have it.